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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''
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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
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Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
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Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
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Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
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But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.
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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
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Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.
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Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
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I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.
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I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.
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